{"id":35645,"date":"2017-03-27T21:22:35","date_gmt":"2017-03-28T04:22:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/03\/immortal-stem-cells-let-scientists-create-an-unlimited-supply-of-artificial-blood"},"modified":"2017-06-04T07:07:30","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T14:07:30","slug":"immortal-stem-cells-let-scientists-create-an-unlimited-supply-of-artificial-blood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/03\/immortal-stem-cells-let-scientists-create-an-unlimited-supply-of-artificial-blood","title":{"rendered":"Immortal Stem Cells Let Scientists Create an Unlimited Supply of Artificial Blood"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/immortal-stem-cells-let-scientists-create-an-unlimited-supply-of-artificial-blood.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Researchers have developed a line immortal stem cells that allow them to generate an unlimited supply of artificial red blood cells on demand.<\/p>\n<p>If these artificial blood cells pass clinical trials, they\u2019ll be far more efficient for medical use than current red blood cell products, which have to be generated from donor blood \u2014 and would be a huge deal for patients with rare blood types, who often struggle to find matching blood donors.<\/p>\n<p>The idea isn\u2019t for these immortal stem cells to replace blood donation altogether \u2014 when it comes to regular blood transfusions, donated blood still does the trick.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/immortal-stem-cells-let-scientists-create-an-unlimited-supply-of-artificial-blood\">http:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/immortal-stem-cells-let-scientis...cial-blood<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers have developed a line immortal stem cells that allow them to generate an unlimited supply of artificial red blood cells on demand. If these artificial blood cells pass clinical trials, they\u2019ll be far more efficient for medical use than current red blood cell products, which have to be generated from donor blood \u2014 and [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":413,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,269],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35645","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-life-extension"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35645","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/413"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35645"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35645\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58290,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35645\/revisions\/58290"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35645"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35645"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35645"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}